CLARKSVILLE — For the second straight year, University of the Ozarks guard April Young was named the American Southwest Conference Distinguished Scholar-Athlete for women’s basketball, the league office announced Monday.

The honor, in its fifth academic year, recognizes student-athletes that achieve a higher level of academic achievement (a 3.20 grade-point average or better) while competing as a starter or important reserve on their team. From that list — limited to one nominee per school in each ASC championship sport — the Sports Information Directors from the conference’s 15 member institutions vote on a Distinguished Scholar-Athlete from each sport.

Young caps an impressive senior season by earning Capital One Academic All-America honors, Capital One All-District honors, ASC all-conference and ASC all-academic.

Young, a 5-foot-7 native of Deer, ranked 10th in the ASC in scoring (13.8) and led the conference in three-point shots per game (2.4). She hit 62-of-202 (31 percent) from the three-point line, both team-highs, and made a three-pointer in all but one game during the season. Young owns the school record with 192 career three-pointers, and has 1,161 points, 206 assists and 426 rebounds in her career. She ends her collegiate career as a three-time member of the academic all-district team as well as a three-time all-conference performer.

A biology major, she graduated with summa cum laude honors and was on the ASC all-academic team three times.